GUENTER ZOELLER DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, GERMANY Email: Zoeller@lmu.de Website: http://tinyurl.com/zoellerguenter LIST OF COURSES TAUGHT As of November 2017 1. Courses taught at the Grinnell College, The University of Iowa, Princeton University, Emory University, Seoul National University and Chinese University of Hong Kong: Introduction to Philosophy Contemporary Ethical Issues Philosophy as Literature, Literature as Philosophy Philosophy of Literature Republics Old and New. Political Freedom in Classical Greek and Modern European Philosophy Modern Philosophy: Descartes through Kant Kant, Critique of Pure Reason Kant, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment Kant, Critique of Judgment Kant's Moral Theory Kant's Egology Kant's Theory of Reference Kant and Schopenhauer Fichte, Schelling, Hegel The Philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte Beyond Formalism: The Foundation of a Concrete Ethics in Kant, Fichte and Hegel Law and Morality: The Relation of Right and Morals in Kant, Fichte and Hegel Aesthetic Theories of Kant, Hegel and Adorno The Sublime: Burke, Kant, Schiller, Derrida and Lyotard The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's Epistemology and Metaphysics Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Beauty 19th Century Philosophy Enlightenment, Liberation and Redemption: German Philosophy and Opera 1784-1882 Brentano, Meinong, Husserl Metaphysics: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger Scheler and Heidegger Phenomenology and Existentialism Existentialist Philosophy
Zöller, Courses Taught, 2 Idealism and Intentionality: Kant, Husserl, Heidegger The Early Heidegger Heidegger, Being and Time Adorno and Heidegger Habermas and Derrida 2. Courses taught at the University of Munich: a) Lecture Courses (Vorlesungen) Kant This Side of Good and Evil: On the Theory of Freedom in Kant and His Successors Beyond Formalism: The Search for a Concrete Ethics in Kant, Fichte and Hegel Knowledge and Faith: The Foundation and Limitation of Religion in Kant and German Idealism Fichte I (through 1800) Fichte II (after 1800) Modern Philosophy I (Descartes to Kant) Modern Philosophy IIU (Kant to Nietzsche) Modern Philosophy II (Kant to Heidegger) Modern Philosophy (Kant and German Idealism) Schopenhauer Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Art for Free Human Beings: Political Philosophy of Music Liberty, Equality, Community. Fichte's Political Philosophy Between Revolution and Republic Will, Freedom and Law. Determination and Self-Determination From Luther through Kant To Nietzsche b) Lower-level Seminars (Proseminare) Kant's Philosophy of History The Aesthetics of the Sublime: Burke, Kant, Schiller Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Humanity Fichte's Theory of Sociality (Venice International University) Adorno's Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason "Sounding Silence": Venice and the New Aesthetics of Tonal Art (R. Wagner, F. Liszt and L. Nono) (Venice International University) "Eloquent Beyond all Words". Th. W. Adorno's Interpretation of Beethoven (with Bernd Edelmann) (Venice International University) c) Upper-level Seminars (Hauptseminare, Fortgeschrittenenseminare) War and Peace. Politico- and Historico-Philosophical Perspectives from Herodotus and Thucydides to Kant and Clausewitz Moses. The Theologico-Political Founding Figure in Modern Philosophy and Musical Composition (Venice International University)
Zöller, Courses Taught, 3 Liberty and Security. Reading and Discussing Hobbes' Leviathan in English Persons ad Properties. Foundations of Liberalism in Locke and J. St. Mill Modern Liberty. Civil and Commercial Society in Scottish Enlightenment Thought "The empire of laws, and not of men." The Republican Tradition in North Atlantic Political Philosophy Revolutions American and French. Foundations and Features of the Modern Republican Polity Idealist Philosophy of the I and Romantic Narrative of the I (with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Teuber) Conjectural Beginnings of Human History Between Rousseau und Kant (with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Teuber) Kant, Critique of Pure Reason Kant's Anthropology Kant's Teleological Thinking Kant's Theory of Subject, Self and Soul "This I or He or It that thinks." Kant on the Consciousness of Oneself "Free Self-Constraint". The Founding Principles of Concrete Practical Subjectivity in Kant's Critical Ethics Reediting Kant's Three Critiques. Issues of Text and Commentary in Critical Perspective, Graduate Seminar (with Prof. Dr. Andrea Esser, University of Marburg) (Venice International University) Fichte, The System of Ethics Fichte, Science of Knowledge 1810 Fichte, Science of Knowledge 1811 Fichte, Science of Knowledge 1812 Foundations of German Idealism (Kant, Jacobi, Maimon, Reinhold, Aenesidemus-Schulze, Fichte, Hölderlin) The Theory of Freedom. Kant and His Successors Beyond Formalism. The Search for a Concrete Ethics in Kant, Fichte and Hegel Knowledge and Faith. The Foundation and Limitation of Religion in Kant and German Idealism Hegel and German Idealism Idealistist Philosophy of the I and Romantic Narration of the I (with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Teuber) Certainy. Historical and Systematic Perspectives Beauty in Music, Philosophically and Musicologically Considered (with Dr. Bernd Edelmann) (Venice International University) "The True Republic Is Only in Heaven." Political Philosophy of History in Late Fichte and Schelling Revolutions American and French. Foundations and Features of the Modern Republican Polity Music Drama. Wagner and Nietzsche on the Birth and Rebirth of Tragedy Richard Wagner and Politics (with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rathert) (Venice International University) Imago mortis. Representations of the Dead Body in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (with Prof. Dr. Andrea M. Esser) (Venice International University) d) FOKI (Forschungsoberseminar Kant International) Regular Research Seminar on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant on changing topics: Natural Law Philosophy of Freedom
Zöller, Courses Taught, 4 Political Philosophy Market and Power e) Interdisciplinary Seminars in the International Master s Program, "Historical Discourses of Art and Image," University of Munich, University of Augsburg and University of Eichstätt in the "Elite Network Bavaria" Pathos and Tamed Ecstasis. Form and Anti-Form in Verbal and Visual Modern Art (with Prof. Dr. Aage Hansen-Löve, Dr. Audrey Rieber and Prof. Dr. Michael Zimmermann) Eye Sight. The Eye as Gateway to the World and As Part of the World in Modern European Thought and Art (with Prof. Dr. Aage Hansen-Löve, Dr. Michael Weiß and Prof. Dr. Michael Zimmermann) Temporality in Philosophy and Art in Modernity. Selected Texts and Works of Art (with Prof. Dr. Hubertus Kohle and Dr. Thomas Kisser) Growth and Decline. Natural and Cultural Processes in Image and Thought in European Modernity (with Prof. Dr. Aage Hansen-Löve, Dr. Sarah Lindford, Dr. Michael Weiß and Prof. Dr. Michael Zimmermann) Thinking Images. Loss and Reassurance of the Self in Romantic Philosophy and Art After J. G. Fichte (with Prof. Dr. Michael Zimmermann) f) Seminars and Tutorials in Munich's new Master of Philosophy Program (MPhil; program phased out) Kant Kant's Practical Philosophy Kant and German Idealism Continental Philosophy from Schopenhauer to Heidegger Theory of the Will (Kant, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger) g) Full-term courses at Venice International University (taught in English) Heritage or Hindrance? Philosophical Perspectives on Religion Greek Heritage and Modern Culture. Wagner and Nietzsche on the Birth and Rebirth of Tragedy Law and Liberty. Political Freedom in the Modern Tradition Venice and the Republican Tradition. Self-Governance and Empire in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy Entertainment Business. Venice and the Invention of Commercial Music Theater Comparing East and West. Self and Society in European and Asian Political Thought h) Oberseminare and Colloquia (Research Seminars) General Freedom. Kant s Naturrecht Feyerabend Freedom and Constraint. Kant's Political Philosophy New Work on Kant and German Idealism Research Colloquium (ongoing seminar with master's students, doctoral students, post-docs
Zöller, Courses Taught, 5 and visiting colleagues) i) Ringvorlesung (Collaborative Lecture Series) German Philosophy from Schopenhauer to Heidegger Kant. Introduction to Critical Philosophy Freedom. Introduction to German Idealism j) Courses taught at other Universities "The Body Politic. Political Biology From Aristotle to Hegel," Graduate Course, Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade de Federal Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, August 2013 "The Body Politic. Biomorphic Models of the State in Classical Greek and Classical German Philosophy," Graduate Course, Department of Philosophy, Huozhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), March 2014 "Law and Liberty. Kant's Political Philosophy of Right and Obligation," School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China, June 2015